COMM exam 3
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- culture
- webs of significance; systems of shared meaning
- social structures
- rules and resources of a group; characteristics such as composition, norms, communication networks, status hierarchies, task requirements and peer pressure
- involvement
- stakeholders' free expression of ideas that may or may not affect managerial decisions
- Narrative Paradigm
- of walter fisher
- metaphor
- clarifies what is unknown or confusing by equating it with an image that is more familiar or vivid
- functional perspective
- a perspective approach that describes and predicts task group performance when four communication functions are fulfilled
- dramatistic pentad
- a tool to analyze how a speaker attempts to get an audience to accept his view of reality by using five key elements of the human drama--act, scene, agent, agency
- canons of rhetoric
- the principle divisions of the art of persuasion, established by ancient rhetoricians-- invention, arrangement, style, delivery, memory
- discursive formation
- the process by which unquestioned and seemingly natural ways of interpreting the world become ideologies
- Faustian bargain
- a deal with the devil; selling your soul for temporary earthly gain; according to postman a new technology always presents us with this
- corporate stories
- tales that carry management ideology and reinforce company policy
- the rehetoric
- by aristotle
- ethnography
- mapping out social discourse; discovering who ppl within a culture think they are, what they think they are doing, and to what end they think they are doing it
- identification
- the recognized common ground between speaker and audience such as physical characteristics, talents, occupation, experiences, personality, beliefs, and attitudes; consubstantiation
- golden mean
- virtue of moderation; virtuous person develops habits that avoid extremes
- thick description
- a record of the intertwined layers of common meaning that underlie what a particular ppl say and do
- dramatism
- by kenneth burke
- mortification
- confession of guilt and request for forgiveness
- literary age
- visual era; a time of private detachment because the eye is the dominant sense organ
- tribal age
- an acoustic era; a time of community because the ear is the dominant sense organ
- requisite functions
- requirements for positive group outcome; problem analysis, goal setting, identification of alternatives, and evaluation of pluses and minuses for each
- narrative fidelity
- congruence between values embedded in a message and what listeners regard as truthful and humane; the story strikes a responsive chord
- narrative coherence
- internal consistency with characters acting in a reliable fashion; the story hangs together
- guilt
- burke's catchall term for tension, anxiety, embarassment, shame, disgust, and other noxious feelings intrinsic to the human condition
- identification of alternatives
- generation of options to sufficiently solve the problem
- paradigm
- a conceptual framework; a univarsal model that calls for people to view events through a common interpretive lense
- cultural studies
- of stuart hall; a neo-marxist critique that sets forht the position that mass media manufacture consent for dominant ideologies
- FOICS
- function oriented interaction coding system; a tool to record and classify the function of utterances during a group's discussion
- god term
- the word a speaker uses to which all other positive words are subservient
- collegial stories
- positive or negative anecdotes about others in the organization; description of how things work
- rhetoric
- discovering all possible means of persuasion
- enthymeme
- an incomplete version of a formal deductive syloogism that is created by leaving out a premise already accepted by the audience or by leaving an obvious conclusion unstated
- discursive closure
- suppression of conflict without employee realizing that they are complicit in their own censorship
- codetermination
- collaborative decision making; participatory democracy in the work place
- sructuration
- the production and reproduction of social systems through group members' use of rules and resources in interaction
- invention
- a speakers "hunt" for arguments that will be effective in a particular speech
- personal stories
- tales told by employees that put them in a favorable light
- digital age
- a possible fifth era of specialized electronic tribes contentious over diverse beliefs and values
- cultural performance
- actions by which memebers constitute and reval their culture to themselves and others; an ensemble of texts
- media ecology
- of marshal mcluhan, the study of differnent personal and social environments created by the use of different communication technologies
- participation
- stakeholder democracy; the process by which all stakeholders in an organization negotiate power and openly reach collaborative decisions
- systematically distorted communication
- operating outside of employees' awareness, a form of discurse tht restricts what can be said or even considered
- guilt
- burke's catchall term for tesion, anxiety, embarassment, shame, disgust, and other noxious feelings intrinsic to the human condition
- corporate colonization
- encroachment of modern corporations into every area of life outside the workplace
- goal setting
- establishing criteria by which to judge proposed solutions
- adaptive structuration theory
- by poole
- ideology
- framework through which we interpret, understand, and make sense of social existence
- ritual
- texts that articulate multiple aspects of cultural life, often marking rites of passage or life transitions
- victimage
- scapegoating; the process of naming an external enemy as the source of all personal or public ills
- mortification
- confession of guilt and request for forgiveness
- functional utterance
- an uninterrupted statement of a single member that appears to perform a specific function
- identification
- the recognized common ground between speaker and audience such as physical characteristics, talents, occupation, experiences, personality, beliefs, and attitudes; consubstantiation
- Dramatism
- by Kenneth Burke
- devil term
- the word a speaker uses that sums up all that is regarded as bad, wrong, or evil
- managerialism
- a systematic logic, set of routine practices, and ideology that values control over all other concerns
- democratic pluralism
- the myth that society is held together by common norms such as equal opportunity, respect for diversity, one person- one vote, individual rights, and rule of law
- functional perspective on group decision making
- by hirokawa & goura;
- pathos
- emotional proof, which comes from the feelings the speech draws out of those who hear it
- electronic age
- an era of instant communication; a return to the global village with all at once sound and touch
- information model
- view that communication is merely a conduit for the transmission of information about the real world
- communication model
- a view that language id the principal medium throug which social reality is created and sustained
- god term
- the word a speaker uses to which all other positive words are subservient
- problem analysis
- determining the nature, extent, and cause of the problem facing the group
- victimage
- scapegoating; the process of naming an external enemy as the source of all personal or public ills
- hegemony
- the subtle sway of society's haves over its have-nots
- print age
- a visual era; mass produced books ussher in the industrial revolution and nationalism, yet individuals are isolated
- evaluation of positive and negative characteristics
- testing the relative merits of each option against the criteria selected; weighing the benefits and costs
- dramatic pentad
- a tool to analyze how a speaker attempts to get an audience to accept his view of reality by using five key elements of the human drama-- act, scene, agent, agency, and purpose
- devil term
- the word a speaker uses that sums up all that is regarded as bad, wrong, or evil
- ethos
- ethical proof, which comes from the speaker's intelligence, character, and goodwill toward the audience, as these personal characteristics are revealed through the message
- consent
- the process by which employees actively, though unknowingly, accomplish managerial interests in a faulty attempt to fulfill their own
- reflective thinking
- thinking that favors rational consideration over intuitive hunches or pressure from those with clout
- global village
- a world wide electronic community where everyone knows everyone's business and are all somewhat testy
- logos
- logical proof, which comes from the line of argument in a speech